Tag Archives: Judge Mark Davis

In this child pornography prosecution, a Norfolk U.S. District Court will suppress statements defendant made to law enforcement agents and written notations made on certain exhibits during execution of a search warrant at his home, as well as a handwritten ...

In this interpleader contest naming as defendant beneficiaries on a woman’s life insurance policy, a Norfolk U.S. District Court denies summary judgment to one named beneficiary who is suspected of being involved in the woman’s death by knife wound, at ...

A Norfolk U.S. District Court awards a bank a default judgment in excess of nearly $2 million on two notes signed by a commercial venture and two personal guaranties signed by each of three individual defendants; the court awards the ...

Petitioner is entitled to no relief on his 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion from his conviction on two counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a minor, his 7-year-old stepdaughter, while he was stationed in Japan with the U.S. Air Force; ...

Having already concluded defendant townhomes have no coverage for damage from Chinese Drywall under the “pollution exclusion” in plaintiff carriers’ insurance policies, a Newport News U.S. District Court says the carriers have no obligations under secondary coverage provisions for damages ...

Pro se defendants who are seeking relief from plaintiff’s default judgment for wrongful discharge, breach of contract and violation of overtime pay provisions under the Fair Labor Standards Act are entitled to an evidentiary hearing on their assertion that they ...

In light of the government’s threshold showing that defendant drew his defense counsel into a scheme to have an old college friend mail a letter to defense counsel with a fictional person’s false confession to the child pornography offenses with ...

In this 66-year-old African-American male mathematics professor’s suit alleging violations of the Equal Pay Act by defendant Norfolk State University, the Norfolk U.S. District Court conditionally certifies a class of similarly situated male professors, based on NSU’s submission of its ...

Plaintiff homeowners who alleged defendants wrongfully foreclosed on their home and then failed to follow through on a settlement agreement, must pursue their claims, including breach of contract claims in federal court; the Norfolk U.S. District Court says plaintiff’s claim ...

When a developer denied that it had hired an architectural firm to renovate a historical property in Norfolk, the federal judge hearing the contract dispute turned to an unlikely source to contradict the developer. The court quoted the developer’s own ...